Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

This is a proposed development. As you ca can see on this side,n 015, after you proposed the dne, they came out with a proposal for 124 million with a groundlevel basement. This is the slide that is before you, you can see that the area has been reduced to 127,000 square feet and a communitybased basement level. Why are we doing this project . Some of the this is listed on the slide. It includes the sustainability as indicated on this slide. The key to transaction document that you would be approving is what we call the Lease Development and dispostion agreement. The lgda is the agreement and it is going to be for a period of one year and will list all of the conditions of what you need to complete before the port will allow the lease to be recorded. During the period, it will be paying us for staff time. And they will have transaction costs that have will be moving the project forward. They will use this for financing the project and then keeping more time to close escrow because, you know, the nature of the business, they may not get everything down in time. Were providefor them to close escrow. The lease will be for an initial period of 15year and 16year extension. It includes rent they need to pay to the correspondent. Court. We covered this extensively at the meeting on august 13th. We went over all those details we do have the details if you want to see them. Next is the key Public Benefits of the development. This is keeping with the policy of the city. As the space of 14,000 square feet of space which will be privately financed, not putting any money to it and operated by the developer. Therethen there will be new jos well as increased revenue to the port. Were opportunity, i will turn it over to jay and come back to wrap it up. President and commissioners, executive director and staff. Im jay wallace and im here with annie jameson. Were happy to go through the slights, buslides, but we wantey thank you to the supporters throughout the city. Its been a great opportunity to present a really positive outcome for the city and we hope that it meets all of your expectation and ours. Im thrilled to be here with annie. She started in 1998. So tell us a little bit and then well get into that. I started in 1998 and i was involved with the mayor of San Francisco came to meet the mayor of seattle and calm to see the show. They had a conversation about hey, if it closes in seattle, it should come down to San Francisco. That is what happened and started a Great Partnership between the two city. Im pleased were able to continue that tradition and move forward. Thank you. In termsch the desigs of thee project, theyre still not able to be with us today. But you have heard from him in the past. The project hasnt changed one bit since you heard from us four years ago. A site plan, we find the interior of the building, but the park is the same. The location and size of the theatre is the same, 40foot height limit is the same and red brick along the exterior, the glass gazebo for the tent, the park in the back and we have been a project that has been moving through the process. Were now here at what we hope to be the lease approval, so we can move on to the board of supervisors and happy to answer questions, but again, the project has been stable since virtually day one. The only thing that did change is the elimination of 16foot basement deemed to be unnecessary. So happy to answer any questions. So move on, if you like. Thank you. Very quickly, ill get to the rest of the drawings. The rendering of the park. A few from valejo street to embarcadaro and there is what the building looks like whenned completed. The next steps is requesting the approval of the items before you. Were projecting approval in september or october and we hope to able to process this by october of next year if everything goes accordingly. That concludings our staff presentation. I make a motion. Second. We have Public Comment, linda . Good afternoon. , president brandon, honourable commissioners and always esteemed the Board Director elaine forbes. Thank you for having me here. Im here wearing three hats for disclosure, one as a San Francisco and secondly, as someone that has extensive background, Land Use Development and third hat im wearing for the last two and a half years, i have joined 34 other people in sanfrancisco advising this commission that your staff, trying to put together a wonderful landuse master plan that will guide this agency for the next 30, 40, 50 years and beyond. S i waive this project with the overall objections and equity and sustainability. The activities are increasing there and its what we spoke about a lot. This is a public, private venture which is one of the things we note that you all would be embarking on as in the San Francisco giants. Its the only way to begin to implement all of those wonderful projects on the pipeline. So this project meets that. Lets talk about open space. Yes, you have a lot in there as the port manager director said before. And so, you have all of the elements of the Economic Development and the seawall, the development of the seawall is really the core, one of the core functions. This really makes you all the Enterprise Agency that you are striving to become more and more. So all of this project is in line with the mission and objective of off all. I can also add that you have value added in terms of job creation. One of the signature elements this is the detail. I really want to commend the port staff and the project sponsor for everything youve done. This is a tremendous benefit to our neighborhood with the open space, a hotel that i will say beyond the construction trades with labor and i want to commend the developers for that, as well the only question i have, im curious if theres any way to close the road sooner and Start Construction before october of 2020 . I can let jay answer this question but from my professional experience, there is no drawing as to go to the city dbu approval process. Oui quo would like to see that,k you. Well make a photo of that, commission . At. We have reviewed this project with a fine tooth comb as ricky knows. Away asked questions and i think were excited, number one, to see tiattro come back and revenuesustains source and its exciting to have a hotel on the waterfront. I think thats a Major New Development for us and that it is actually supported by everybody in the community, as well was the port and the city. So i think thats a major breakthrough. I wanted to follow up on the question that commissioner gillman asked on the timeline. How long is the construction period and when would we see the project completed and lease in operation . The construction period is projected to be roughly a year and a half to two years, depending on what our conditions are. But that is currently the time frame. By end of 2022, hopefully. Yes. Hopefully we can see it sooner. As someone involved with the cultural organizations in the city, i think its really sorely needed to have another cultural activity here and i think we would be supported to see that and not only for the city but the visitors to the waterfront. Thats a great benefit to have. It. Will this building be tied to some of the things they could provide as a Public Benefit which would act as a marketing for the site, as well . If people see that, maybe i should see the show and maybe thats a future sort of information session for us. But it would be nice to see how we would use the park and how it would be activated, who would manage the activation and if you could give us details. To get to where we are today, its a huge effort and this is an addon to the future to understand. Vice president adam . What and introduction and its good to see an icon coming back, the support, and thank you for being in the house and all of the the jobs it will provide. Jay, i dont know what kind of presentation you may and started on page one and went to page 10, it was quick. But i want to say thank you for your patience and being very, very consistent. I look forward to voting on this and supporting this. I tell you something, this is going to add to the beauty of our San Francisco waterfront booing dowingbeing down there we terminal. I dont think theres a better waterfront in the world better than what we have in San Francisco and its getting better. I want to say thank you for your vision and pass it on to everybody. The port staff, once again, ricky, thanks for all of your hard work. You knocked this one out of the park. And so thank you very much. Thank you. Ricky, rebecca and mike, thank you for your patience and perserverance and thank you for walking us through this project with a fine toothcomb and making sure we understood exactly what we were getting. I think because you did that, we are so excited to have this project come to fruition. Were going to get a hotel first on the waterfront. That the port owns. We are looking forward to this project. Aye. Resolution 1936 has been approved. Congratulations a. Requesting authorization to ward contract to the Harbour Services incorporated, rc environment and the silverado contractors and related professional services. Each contract in an amount not to of course seed 300,000. If this contract will off approved, there will be zero waste by 2020 and environmental practices and Port Operations and by ensuring this results in advancements, Environmental Quality of life for San Francisco residents and visitors. The scope for this contract is not fully defined in advance but will certainly as master agreements through which port staff will issue orders on a project by project basis. Port staff have already identified areas and projects that this contract can be used for. This is such as recovery, containment and materials. Following wiring used the majority of the work that this contract will be used for is Hazardous Waste disposal services. Because the service is highly specialized and because there is a low availability of people that can do this work, cmd, the subcontractor requirement goes for 5 of the contract. Commissioners, on september 11, 2018, you authorized qualifications or rsq to provide these services to the port. On february 26th of this year, we issued the rsq with a due date of april 5th. On that due date, we received three responses. In a bit to try to increase the interest by suspicion in rsq, we in agreement with cmd decided to reject the three proposals and to reissue the rsq. With had interest in the rsq. Notably, we performed in the bay area counties to provide these kind of services. We emailed from various periods and even before the rsq was reissued. We held a preproposal conference attended by representatived from over ten firms and we also asked staff that have been contracted to promote the rsq at any of the events. On the due date of july 12th, we received four proposals for 18 unique firms and all were deemed responsive. This next slide deals with a Selection Process for this contract. The rsq allowed for the award of up to four contracts. It met all licenses and requirements and we in consultation an agreement with cmd decided to recommend contract awards all for proposals. On july 30th, we issue issued a notice of intent and did not receive any project. The next two slides provide information about conferences. Some of the firms are happy and happy to answer any questions you may have. Although the requirements for this contract is 5 , each of the four firms have committed to selfcontract nearly 7 of the work to lbds. In fact, 60 of the subcontractings in the teams, on the firms are lbds. Nrc environmental specializes in Marine Services for emergency services, including the contamination, salvage, removal and disposal vessels and barges. This was involve in the demolition of removing the bay bridge and their specialization is the Demolition Services and salvage. Commissioners if you want this contract today, we will work to issue the notices to proceed by october 0th. 10th. Also, theres a port contract demonstrators and that concludes my demonstration and i appreciate your time. So moved. Second. Is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you, that was a very thorough report and appreciate the details youve provided in terms of the outreach which would have been one of the topics of discussion on the lbe side and i can imagine this is a very specialized and so if we feel that hopefullyby giving these firms an opportunity to see increased opportunities for lbes in the future, im supportive of this and i think i presume you all have your home to choose the right firms in each of your areas of specialty. Thank you. Commissioner gillman. No questions. Im supportive and im glad to see there are new firms that got chosen, instead of the same ones, new people that got an opportunity and we want to provide more opportunity to support other people just in the same old group of people. So thank you. I think were all very supportive of this. So all in favour . Aye. Resolution 1930 has been approved. Item 14a, a presentation is addressed and waterfront review process and solicitation of Public Comments. Good afternoon, president brandon. Im the Deputy Director for planning and environment. Happy to be here today to provide a report on where we are with the draft waterfront plan which was published in june. The work that weve withi been g over the summer. I wanted to give you a report on the feedback and the outreach efforts and to provide this public hearing opportunity, as well, for further Public Comments to come forth. We have really sought to solicit comments by the end of settlement so that we can take stock of whether the draft plan is hitting the points that people expected after the long process lead by the Waterfront Plan Working Group and to make any further refinements and, of course, corrections, if necessary, before we start the Environmental Review process. So to that end, the staff report lists more details, but this is the summary of the meetings that have occurred over the last couple of months, continuing through the end of the month, as far as scheduled. Were still open and available, certainly, to other organizations, if they have any interests or questions or meeting requests. So we want to make that clear. But its been a great opportunity to get out to the community and hear so many different perspectives of we vetched out oand wehave reachede port social media, through digital magazine, which has been helpful and we were really the funnest one was the public vote tour back in july. We had over 200 people join that tour. They got a sense to understand what this waterfront actuallien tailactuallyentail entails and it was so fun to see the people in diversity in age and backgrounds and neighborhoods they were coming from. We also have the draft plan online and we have Public Comments and surveys online to make it easier for people to review it and solicit if theyre not able to come to the meetings. And the survey is still open, so this is just a snapshot of the results that we were tallying on the Online Survey as of last week, which was organized by the nine goals that the plan is presented in, along with policies presented in the plan andouille oand all of the subple are promoting for the waterfront subareas. I have snapshots of the highlights because the survey allows for people to give detailed comments, as well and not to repeat them all, but i thought it would be good to highlight for you that on the maritime front, there continues to be very strong support of the ports diverse maritime portfolio and a respect for the birthing, the diversity of birthing requirements that the port needs to maintain to support those industries, particularly for the deep water burbs. Theres a new form of Public Access to the San Francisco waterfront, in addition to Public Access from land. A reiteration of making sure theres as many different public oriented policies and to include opportunities for low and nocost activities, as well, in the interest of really making the waterfront as accessible to everybody, regardless of economic background. I think the two projects that youve had before you today are good examples of what were trying to achieve here. We did get some finergrained comments, as well, on some of the technical issues of some of the policies. One of them being as relates to the embarcadaro Historic District objectives. I would note that all of the Public Outreach done on the waterfront plan, to answer questions or to solicit comments has been done in a quate coordid with on the ports Resilience Programme and rfp preparations for the embarcadaro pier projects and the seawall, as well. Where weve been able to have interactive discussions to show how the policies relate to actual project initiatives that were trying to advance, its helped, i think, the public to understand why the waterfront plan is there and what the policies actually mean and to that end, rattler the Historic District, we did get a comment about, perhaps, clarifying the policy language to make it clear that the highrevenue generating uses that are allowed for in the embarcadro policies is for the purposes of generating the Financial Capacity to be able to seismically upgrade and deliver the trust access and oriented uses and not to be just an an Office Development opportunity. That its an in

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